gbaji wrote:
Except it actually started at 100B. Remember when you pointed that out yourself and the laughed about how unserious the GOP must be because they keep negotiating downward from that starting promise? WTF?
No, it was
never seriously $100B. That was the whole joke. Ryan & Co NEVER actually expected to cut $100B in this budget but rather that they would put a "down payment" towards deeper cuts down the line. But the GOP waved $100B banner all through the midterms and got burned by the rhetoric.
CNBC on Jan 6, 2011 wrote:
"If people think we're afraid of cutting $100 billion they've got another thing coming," House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said on Thursday. "That's just a down payment."
Ryan's comments come one day after he and other Republicans said they would not reach their target of $100 billion in immediate cuts, prompting conservative complaints that they were not living up to their campaign promises.
Republicans had promised before the November elections to roll back federal spending to 2008 levels, which would mean a reduction of $100 billion from the $1.34 trillion budget Obama proposed last year.
Ryan said the actual cuts would only amount to $60 billion because the fiscal year will be nearly halfway through by the time current funding runs out in March. They also will need to cut less because the government is operating at a level at least $20 billion below what Obama proposed.
That "$60B" was later the $50B (some sources say $58B; somewhere in that range anyway) that the GOP went to, pro-rating the fiscal year. From there, they went to $32B, saying that since their starting point was lower than the 2011 budget that was in discussions at the time, they didn't have to cut so much.
Politics Daily, Feb 3, 2011 wrote:
But his proposed savings from non-security-related domestic progams and foreign aid are not as dramatic as they appear at first blush. They were drawn from Obama's 2011 budget request, not against actual spending, which is frozen at 2010 levels in the temporary budget. When measured against present spending, the trims amount to about $32 billion
Naturally, the Tea Party went ballistic over this but, this is the important part, this was
all before the bill was released for the Democrats to examine. There was no negotiation or compromise with the Democrats at this point. As I said earlier, if you honestly think this is true, you're either reading/listening poorly or someone is lying to you.
Serious question: Where do you get your information from? Because you are obviously very ignorant of what's actually going on.
Edited, Mar 31st 2011 4:31pm by Jophiel